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Genetics Home Reference: Xia-Gibbs syndrome

Jiang Y, Wangler MF, McGuire AL, Lupski JR, Posey JE, Khayat MM, Murdock DR, Sanchez-Pulido L, Ponting CP, Xia F, Hunter JV, Meng Q, Murugan M, Gibbs RA. The phenotypic spectrum of Xia-Gibbs syndrome. Am J Med Genet A. 2018 Jun;176(6):1315-1326. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.a.38699. Epub 2018 Apr 25. Murdock DR, Jiang Y, Wangler M, Khayat MM,… Read More: Genetics Home Reference: Xia-Gibbs syndrome »

4 Steps To Beating Alcohol Addiction

The four steps to beating alcoholism are admitting you have a problem, going to a 12-step meeting, deciding to stop drinking, and eventually remaining sober for a long time. Drinking is hazardous to your liver, causing cirrhosis if you drink too much. Binge drinking can alter our DNA, in a long-lasting manner. https://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddisalvo/2019/01/30/study-reveals-what-binge-drinking-could-be-doing-to-your-dna/#14b56d985d7a. Some people… Read More: 4 Steps To Beating Alcohol Addiction »

6 Surprising Ways Improving Your Thoracic Spine & Shoulder Mobility Can Help You Reach Your Goals

As a yoga teacher and personal trainer, I love when I’m able to find ways to connect the dots between what I teach at the yoga studio and what happens at the gym. I get a little giddy when I hear a strength coach suggesting a mobility warm-up that’s essentially a yoga pose with a… Read More: 6 Surprising Ways Improving Your Thoracic Spine & Shoulder Mobility… »

AHA supports rescinding adoption of HPID, OEID

The standard unique Health Plan Identifier and Other Entity Identifier no longer serve the purposes for which they were adopted. That’s the message the American Hospital Association delivered on Tuesday in a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in response to a proposed CMS rule to rescind the adoption of the HPID… Read More: AHA supports rescinding adoption of HPID, OEID »